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Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia

By ROD McGUIRK
Dec 10, 2025 6:59 am - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult.
Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Ring and many other online services

By KELVIN CHAN
Oct 20, 2025 8:20 am - Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon's cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal.
Arlington Heights implements new streaming tax, retains grocery tax

By Christopher Placek
Aug 18, 2025 9:46 pm - Arlington Heights will levy a new streaming tax, and keep an old grocery tax, village board members decided Monday.
Why Mundelein is banning public comments on town’s Facebook page

By Russell Lissau
Jul 29, 2025 2:48 pm - Under a new policy, people can’t comment on official Mundelein Facebook posts.
Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time

By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Jun 19, 2025 11:34 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
Beware of Facebook posts for ‘tariff relief’ payments. They’re lies.

By Shira Ovide
Apr 25, 2025 2:01 pm - Tricksters have been paying Meta to show you Facebook and Instagram posts touting a $750 “tariff relief credit” or $5,600 in “tariff relief benefits.”
Trump extends TikTok deadline another 75 days as US continues to look for a deal

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SARAH PARVINI
Apr 04, 2025 2:21 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
Meta courted Trump; now comes the backlash from Facebook, Instagram users

Tatum Hunter, Heather Kelly
Jan 25, 2025 12:19 am - If you were surprised to see yourself suddenly following President Donald Trump on Instagram and Facebook this week, it’s not because Meta forced you to, the social media...
The Supreme Court is considering a possible TikTok ban. Here's what to know about the case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jan 10, 2025 7:19 am - The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app's fate in their hands.
Australia is banning social media for people under 16. Could this work elsewhere — or even there?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Dec 04, 2024 8:51 am - It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.

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